Coleção Huni Kuin Alta Joalheria
Cotton is ready when it devides itself like stars in the sky.
The Huni Kuin, another one of Tereza Xavier’s partner indian tribes, also known as the Kaxinawa, are located along the rivers Curanja, in Peru, and the Taraucá, the Jordão, the Breu, the Murú, the Envira, the Humaitá and the Purus Rivers which are bordered by the dense Brazilian forests
They are called “people with known customs”. In their original language, the Pano (the Cloth) is translated as “real men”. Their Kenes graphisms are the true drawnings and represent an intrinsic part of their identity, a fundamental element of the artistic beauty. They are connected with the cosmology and the history of their people. In their art, the women use pure cotton, from their cultivated lands, the dyeings are made with natural pigments. They are másters in the art of weaving, they are “the women with drawings”. The natural dyes come from the bark of trees such as cherry trees, mahogany trees or from parts other kinds of vegetation such as the heart of the banana tree. The myth of the boa contrictor snake SIDKA has taught them the art of weaving and that of the women’s body drawings na paintings while that of the YUBE Anaconda has taught men the art of the vine and the art of their singing.
